Further Academic Activities and Memberships (Selection)

Member of the Scientific Board of Research of the Ibero-American Institute of the Preussischer Kulturbesitz Foundation, Berlin

April 2010

Member of the delegation of State Minister A. Schavan in Brazil for the opening of the German-Brazilian Year of Science, Technology and Innovation (Deutsch-Brasilianischen Jahres der Wissenschaft, Technologie und Innovation)

May 2010

Member of the German Delegation for the 27th German-Brazilian commission conference of the WTZ (wissenschaftlich-technologische Zusammenarbeit) in Munich

2009-2012

Member of the selection committee of the Guest Professorship Program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

2004-2010

Member of the Executive Board of ADLAF – German Latin American Research Association

Member of the Scientific Board of various journals: Novos Estudos CEBRAP, Iberoamericana, Interseções, Ciências Sociais, Unisinos among others.

2002-2005

Coordinator of the research group Social Theory under the Brazilian Association of Social Sciences (ANPOCS)

Since 2000

Ad-hoc Consultant for various institutions: German Research Foundation (DFG), Thyssen-Foundation, Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, State Research Foundation of São Paulo (FAPESP) among others

Acquisition and institutional direction of a sub-project for the network project "Fair Fuels?", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Project size: ca. 500.000 EUR, coordination: K. Dietz.

2009-2011

Coordination of a research programme in co-operation with the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil) and the Institute of Economic and Social Development (IDES, Argentina), on Ethnic and Gender-specific Reconfigurations of Rights in Latin America. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), MYNCT (Argentina), CAPES (Brazil) in the amounts of ca. 50.000 EUR.

12/2011

Co-Covenor of the international conference New Differences, Persistent Inequalities? Latin American Experiences. Berlin (further information http://www.desigualdades.net)

Co-Covenor of the lecture series Kulturen und Gesellschaften Amazoniens (Cultures and Societies of the Amazons) at the Freie Universität Berlin, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

November 2010

Co-Covenor of the Summer School Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America. São Paulo, Centro de Estudos da Metrópole, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Co-Chair of an academic excursion to the Amazons, subject: Amazonien als transnationales Konfliktfeld (The Amazons as a Transnational Area of Conflict), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

October 2009

Research residency at the IDES - Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social. Buenos Aires, Argentina, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the MYNCT

2005 - 2008

Co-Chair of an interdisciplinary research project at the CEBRAP (Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning) on The Public Sphere and the Rule of Law in Latin America, funded by the FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation)

2005 - 2006

Participation in the research network OBREAL/EULARO (Europe–Latin America Relations Observatory), coordination of the research topic: Cultural Diversity and Democratic Coexistence, funded by the European Commission

01/2004 – 08/2005

Coordination of a partnership between the Freie Universität Berlin and the Universidade de São Paulo, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Brazilian Administration of Higher Education CAPES under the UNIBRAL programme

2004 - 2006

Coordination of an international research dialogue focused on social theory and globalization, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Brazilian partner organization CAPES

July 2001

Research residency at the York University Toronto (Canada) as part of the Summer Institute: Americas after the Quebec Summit, funded by the York University

2000 - 2004

Recipient of various travel grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG)

08/1998 - 12/2000

Member of a bi-national research project (Brazil-Portugal) on Globalization: National and International Processes of Integration and Exclusion, funded by the CAPES (Brazil) and the ICCTI (Portugal)

08/1998 - 08/1999

Development of a sub-project for the collaborative project The New Associativism in Latin America, funded by the Ford Foundation

04/1996 - 08/1999

Coordination and development of an interdisciplinary research project on social constructions of environmental risks in Brazil for the Brazilian Center for Planning and Analysis CEBRAP, São Paulo. Funded by the Brazilian Environmental Ministry IBAMA

08/1994 - 07/1995

Individual research project on civil society and local public sphere as part of the Ph.D. project. Funded by the Ford Foundation

01/1992 - 12/1995

Ph.D. thesis and foreign exchange fellowship from the Brazilian Research Council

Supervision of Academic Qualification

Supervision of 10 on-going doctoral dissertations in Sociology at the FU Berlin as the first reader (for individual projects, please see Doctoral Candidates)

Supervision of 15 completed doctoral dissertations in Sociology at the FU Berlin as the first reader (for individual projects, please see Doctoral Candidates)

Supervision of 3 on-going Master Thesis in the Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies program at the FU Berlin as the first reader

Supervision of 2 ongoing Master Thesis in Sociology - European Societies at the FU Berlin

Supervision of 14 completed Master Thesis in the Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies program at the FU Berlin as the first reader

Supervision of 5 completed "Diplom" Thesis in Sociology at the FU Berlin as the first reader

Supervision of 6 completed Master Thesis in Political Sociology at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil) as the first reader

Fragmenting Citizenship: Focal Policies, Social Inequalities, and Convivial Patterns in Latin America. Presentation at the International Conference "The Changing Nature of Citizenship", Universität Potsdam, 4.-6.06.2015.

Brasilien: soziale Ungleichheiten, kulturelle Differenzen, Zusammenhalt. Presentation in the frame of the lecture series about Brazil, RWTH Aachen, 12.05.2015.

Social Inequalities, Migration, Social Rights: Conceptual Reflections Concerning the Role of Law. Presentation in the frame of the workshop entitled "Migration, Free Movement and Portability of Social Rights", Oñati, 7.-8.05.2015.

Entangled Inequalities, State, and Social Policies in Contemporary Brazil. Presentation at the workshop "Brazil 2015 and Beyond", Lateinamerika-Institut/ Forschungszentrum Brasilien of the Freie Universität Berlin, 30.01.2015